Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1885 — Improved the People’s Tastes. [ARTICLE]

Improved the People’s Tastes.

Andrew Carnegie says John Swinton started the story of his sympathy ■writtj socialism out of a remark he made at the . Nineteenth Century Club that the brotherhood of man was a yery fine ideal, and the world would be better if it could be put in practice. “Bill" Nye invites the Prince of Wales’ son, who has just come of age, to be his guest when he visits this -country. “I tender you,” he writes* “the freedom of my double-barreled ishot-gun during the prairie-chicken holocaust. I know where the angleworm grows rankest and the wild hen hatches her young.” Pittsburg Chronicle: “Yseult Dudley !” called the court. “Jessult Dudley !” shouted the clerk. “Result Dudley!” veiled the tipstaff. “Yazzoo IDudley!” cried the gatekeeper. “Insult Dudley!" howled the deputy. “Assault .Dudley!" shrieked the prison matron; and a soft voice was heard saying: '“Did apy one call Yirselt Dudley?" Senator Bayard is famous among the epicures of the national capital for his skill in preparing terrapin for the table. The Senator always goes into the kitchen and prepares the terrapin with his own hands for his invited jgueste. He has a knack of imparting peculiar delicacy and flavor to the -dish which none of the professional ■cooks can imitate. He flavors it so as to render the dish more than usually -entrancing to the palate. The latest sensation in Georgia is •over the discovery of a tree each limb •of which, according to the Jackson Herald, has cotton bolls thickly stuck •on it, in which is hidden away the finest kind of cotton, equal in quality to any •ever raised in the South. The tree was discovered by a number of negroes who were clearing up afield in Clarkesboro District, Jackson County. It is •about fifteen feet high and eight inches in diameter, the limbs commencing at a distance of five feet from the ground. ’Squire Cbistler, of Banks County, Georgia, was called upon the other night to join a couple together in the holy bands of matrimony. Getting to the river, he found it impossible to -cross. Determined not to be disap- , pointed, he summoned the people to the water’s edge on the other side of the stream, and the license, tied to a stone, having been pitched over to -Slim, a distance of some sixty yards, he •proceeded to tie the knot at the top of his voice. _ A recent letter from Lima says: The most popular subject in Peru is trade with the United States, numerous New York commercial travelers keep-, ing the country alive to the idea. The ■extent to- which our newspapers und magazines are circulated here is ■extraordinary. They can always be found at the stands, and by reading them the people find that they can not get along without such things as our agricultural implements, machinery, tools, safes, clocks, canned goods, and -cottons, and, of course, tney buy them. In personal appearance Senator Lamar is not at all commanding. He is -about the medium height. He has stooped shoulders, and in his walk keeps his eyes either on the ground or looks straight ahead at space. He has =a goodly growth of lightish brown hair, well sprinkled with gray. His head is large and his forehead prominent. His eyes recede well back in the sockets. His complexion is a aickly sallow. His nose is straight and rather large. His eyes, which are of a blue tint, are set well apart, showing good perceptive faculties. An Atlanta (Ga.) paper, giving an •account of Carl Schurz’s recent lecture in that city, says: “He advocated good housekeeping, and said soda biscuit and bad pie would ruin any man’s stomach, -and, when the stomach is ruined, the man is done for. He related some in teresting stories illustrating the high •esteem in which a good housewife is held. One of these was Bismarck’s wife, who ‘carried the keys’ dangling by her side, and he said that to a man •of sense there is an attraction about a bundh of keys which a bunch of diamonds never possessed.” Uwalde (Texas) Hesperian: While ■Col. John Watkins was plodding his weary way on the road from Laredo to Uvalde, in company with some friends, they were caught in a thunder shower and thoroughly drenched. Arriving at camp, they spread their covering out to dry, and. Ooh Watkins’ pocketbook having been saturated with water, he emptied it and laid its greenbacks on a blanket to dry. While busily engaged in preparing their food, a jenny, on which they carried their packs, very innocently protruded her tongue, and took in her throat $785 of Uitde Sam’s currency. The Colonel, by mere

chance, happening to look that way just as the jenny was swallowing her valuable rations, ran to her, put his hand in her mouth and down her throat, seized the greenbacks, and, to his great joy, brought them forth intact. Hannibal Hamlin tells that when he was Speaker of the lower house of the Maine Legislature there was among the members a very dandified old fellow whose chief weakness was in trying to conceal the baldness which was rapidly stealing over his head. He came into the House each morning with his hair so carefully combed that it looked as though each particular hair had been pasted in its place. Even as it was, there were scarcely enough to cover the bald spot One morning Speaker Hamlin, thinking to have some fun, called this gentleman to him and said: “My dear Blank, I beg your pardon, but one of your hairs is crossed over the others.” The member grew angry at once and replied: “You insult me, sir! you insult me!” and walked stiffly back to his seat. He refused to be reconciled, and he became Hamlin’s life-long enemy. A few years later, when Hamlin was a candidate for the United States Senate, this man was again in the Legislature, and his vote decided the contest in favor of Hamlin’s opponent. A story has just come to light in Georgia which affords much amusement to natives at the expense of three Boston dudes, whose connection with a Georgia marble quarry took them there. They have had much amusement with mountain hoosiers,and delighted in in showig off their superior accomplishments. While on their way to Tate’s they met two harmless-looking country boys, who, barefooted and with but one suspender over their shoulders, were trudging to town; The Bostonians stepped in front of them and ordered them to dance to a Massachusetts juba. When the mountaineers became satisfied that the Bostenians were in earnest, they pulled out two ugly-looking revolvers and changed the programme by ordering the dudes to danpe. Thinking to humor the joke and thus escape easily, they danced awhile, but the boys would not let them balk For two' hours, under cover of mountain revolvers, the Boston boys danced such a jig as had never before been seen. When the time was up one of the mount,aineers exclaimed: “Now run!” The Bostonians were only too glad to do so, and reached town footsore and weary, and are now seeking legal redress. Clara Belle writes from New York to the Cincinnati Enquirer: Mrs. Astor’s supper to twenty of her intimate friends was given Monday night. On this occasion the famous service of solid gold was used. These yellow dishes are seldom brought out from the Astor vault. They cost SIOO,OOO, it is said, though I have heard the figures exaggerated to $250,000. Anyhow, there is no great extravagance in them, for the metal can at any time be melted into good bullion and only the workmanship lost. I have attended many of the Astor entertainments, but never one when the gold utensils were displayed. A friend who has had that inestimablo privilege declared that she didn’t enjoy the experience very much, after all. “In the first place,” she said, “the eatables were completely overcome ,and dominated by the plates on which they were served. The daintiest morsels seemed to have no flavor at at all, and after awhile I fancied that they became impregnated with a peculiar metallic taste. And then I got it into my head that the man sitting opposite me was a detective in disguise, placed there to see that I didn’t slip a plate into my bodice. He was afterward introduced to me, and I had reason to believe that his covert glances had been purely sent? mental, but they spoiled my supper all the same. No, thank you, fine chinaware is good enough for me. ”

No reform was ever yet worked in which the leaders did not rush to extremes—extremes denounced alike by the enemies and the moderate upholders of the movement. * Look, for example, at the aesthetic rage which has possessed in greater or less degree the souls of half the people of England. The promoters of aestheticism have made themselves supremely ridiculous in the eyes of the majority. We have all laughed at their sunflowers, and their cracked china teapots, and dingy green gowns; while the languid youth, with his lilies and his long hair, has become a household jest. But results show a reform in the tastes of the people. There is an improvement in almost every department in which popular fancy shows itself, in building, furniture, dress, and decorative art.— American Queen.